From: bakul@bitblocks.com (Bakul Shah)
Subject: [TUHS] long lived programs
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 14:38:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D0656AE-2164-468B-8C98-578F8B2F16EA@bitblocks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2PfGSsv_EwxOHAmx=LrXwcdxMYSLUQ3mBX6bQ4RgtY20w@mail.gmail.com>
May be case itself is such a historical artifact? AFAIK all non-roman scripts are without case distinction.
> On Apr 5, 2018, at 2:23 PM, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
>
> Two favorite examples are <CR><LF> and case folding.
>
> Both are historical artifacts which made sense in an older age, but hardware outgrew then.
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2018-04-05 21:03 Norman Wilson
2018-04-05 21:23 ` Clem Cole
2018-04-05 21:38 ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2018-04-06 2:03 ` Random832
2018-04-06 4:27 ` Warner Losh
2018-04-06 4:31 ` Jon Steinhart
2018-04-06 4:58 ` Steve Nickolas
2018-04-06 5:02 ` Jon Steinhart
2018-04-06 4:29 ` Steve Johnson
2018-04-06 5:57 ` Bakul Shah
2018-04-06 21:52 ` Peter Jeremy
2018-04-05 22:46 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-04-05 23:23 ` Paul Winalski
2018-04-05 23:33 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-04-06 0:05 ` Toby Thain
2018-04-06 4:51 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-04-06 15:00 ` Tony Finch
2018-04-07 20:41 ` Paul Winalski
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2018-04-06 22:33 Doug McIlroy
2018-04-07 1:01 ` Paul Winalski
2018-04-07 1:09 ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-23 18:27 [TUHS] long lived programs (was Re: RIP John Backus Bakul Shah
2018-03-23 20:50 ` [TUHS] long lived programs Steve Johnson
2018-03-23 21:07 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-23 15:51 Ron Natalie
2018-03-23 15:57 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-23 16:25 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2018-03-23 16:59 ` Lawrence Stewart
2018-03-23 17:31 ` Steve Nickolas
2018-03-23 16:32 ` Ron Natalie
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